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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

Auction-SURFACE GRINDER, Peterborough, ON

This is the first grinder I've used running on a vfd. Read about the many benefits for years regarding the variable speed, but I didn't really think about the softer ramp up negating the need to dress all the time. Right now I just have it running off my Mills vfd, via plug, same as my shaper, but I plan to have it on it's own when I can afford it someday. All the machines are so close, It's not that big of an inconveniece right now, and I can only use one at a time anyway.

I'm sure wheels will last many years at my usage rates. I would still like to pick up a couple extra hubs, just to have a couple different wheels for various materials/operations though.
 
On the Norton front, even though he isn't the most skilled machinist, Clough42 got a bad Norton wheel. it couldn't be balanced reasonably. I think Norton wheels are very high quality, but the odd bad one gets through. always. check.

I use Red Label Abrasives for all my belts, and Norton wheels (usually).
 
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